How to hold on to your partner after retirement - 10 suggestions for avoiding the minuses

"A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job." - Ella Harris

On average a working man and wife spend 11 waking hours together between Monday and Friday. On retirement this increases to 55 hours. This can prove a massive minus if resentment builds because you feel you need your own space and privacy from time to time. Discuss the situation and reach an agreement.
Suddenly being together early in the morning might start to degenerate into a 'good moaning' and consequently spoil the tone of the whole day. Make a pact to be upbeat and cheerful or else be quiet, and so start the day as positively as you'd like to end it.
Your partner is probably the most important person in your life. Demonstrate this with physical affection. It doesn't have to be sex or nothing; an unexpected kiss, a cuddle or a surprise hug will work wonders. Keep the romance alive and the relationship more pleasant.
Both be diplomatic when criticising or drawing attention to quirks and annoying habits. These will seem to magnify and increase as you spend more time together. Eating habits, telling the same worn out stories and jokes and selective deafness spring to mind.
Avoid mind numbingly boring routine. Be reckless and spontaneous sometimes. It'll make you feel refreshed and give you something new to talk about. To hell with the washing up or the cost; the Circus might not be in town for long! Go first class. Your heirs will!
You might have been the BIG BOSS at work but you're retired now and it won't wash with your partner at home when you issue commands and expect a slick response. Compromise and a workable solution are called for.. What about taking it in turns to be BOSS?
Now the straight jacket of work has been stripped away your partner's true self might emerge in little eccentricities and modes of thought and dress that unnerve you. Unless it's a potential danger to children and animals go with it and enjoy it!
Now that you are retired you're not likely to get out and out courtesy and encouragement from anyone but your partner. Both work on it! Be each other's best friend both in private and in public.
When you are together much of the time minor disagreements can have the habit of magnifying. Upsets are inevitable, but remember, the sooner they are resolved the sooner you can get on with enjoying your diminishing time together.
Keep your old friends and make new ones, but don't always assume that you can successfully inflict them on your partner. You might have to each go your own way on this one.